1-Tb/s (10×107 Gb/s) Electronically Multiplexed Optical Signal Generation and WDM Transmission

Author

Raybon, Gregory ; Winzer, Peter J. ; Doerr, Christopher R.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ

Volume

25

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

238

Abstract

We demonstrate the transmission of electronically multiplexed optical signals at a serial data rate of 107 Gb/s. Ten wavelength channels are modulated to provide 1-Tb/s total data capacity at a spectral efficiency of 0.7 bits/s/Hz (144-GHz channel spacing). A single-chip optical equalizer compensates for the optical modulator bandwidth limitations for all wavelengths simultaneously, and the transmission over nonzero dispersion fiber is achieved in both a straight-line 400-km system and in a 1000-km recirculating loop

Keywords

channel spacing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Tbit/s; 1000 km; 107 Gbit/s; 144 GHz; 400 km; WDM transmission; data capacity; electronic multiplexing; nonzero dispersion fiber transmission; optical modulator; optical signal generation; recirculating loop; single-chip optical equalizer; spectral efficiency; straight-line system; wavelength channel modulation; wavelength-division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Equalizers; Ethernet networks; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber optic links; modulation; optical communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.886723

Filename

4137616